Swimmer963 comments on Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 10 May 2011 03:09:56PM 0 points [-]

If so, rationalists may be able to beat that one by wanting people to be more rational, though there do seem to be some firm lines in this community, like being obligated to be a materialist.

I'm not sure what you mean by the word "materialist" in this context. Could you explain?

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 10 May 2011 03:40:23PM *  0 points [-]

Materialist as in reductionist, as in Thou Art Physics not as in being materialistic.

Comment author: Swimmer963 10 May 2011 04:01:21PM 0 points [-]

Ok (sigh of relief). That's what I thought but I'm not used to seeing the word used to mean 'reductionist'.

Comment author: saturn 10 May 2011 06:25:15PM *  2 points [-]

Not exactly. Strange as it sounds, there are non-reductive materialist philosophers.

Comment author: DSimon 10 May 2011 07:06:38PM *  1 point [-]

We are all reductionist girls*, living in a reductionist world.

* For a sufficiently broad value of "girls", or a sufficiently narrow value of "all".

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